Full title: The historical library of Diodorus the Sicilian. In Fifteen Books. The First Five, Contain the Antiquities of Egypt, Asia, Africa, Greece, the islands, and Europe. The Last Ten, An Historical Account of the Affairs of the Persians, Grecians, Macedonians, and other Parts of the World. To which are added, The Fragments of Diodorus that are found in the Bibliotheca of Photius: together With those Publish’d by H. Valesius, L. Rhodomannus, and F. Ursinus. Made English, by G. Booth, of the city of Chester, Esq.

Folio. pp. [4] (blank), [28], 214-246 [i.e.446], 473-704, [32], 707-737, [3], 741-778 [i.e. 780], [2], 783 [i.e. 784], 783 [i.e. 785], 779-780, 773, 782-783, 776, 785-797 [795 called 759], [5] (blank), ff. [3] of folded plates. Numerous pagination errors, including p. 409 misnumbered 309, p. numbers 447-472 omitted, and p. 779-[784] repeated. Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁴ B-2E⁴ 2F⁴2G-3L⁴ 3M⁴(-3M4) 3Q-4U⁴ 4X² 4Y-5K⁴ 5L-5T² 4Y-5K⁴ 5L². Engraved coat of arms on title page verso, with motto "Non nobis nati". Three folded maps facing p. 133, p. 215 and p. 299. Map facing p. 215 titled "Antient Sicele according to the description of Philip Chiuerius." Map facing p. 299 titled "The map of Antient Greece expressing especially the places mentioned in Thucydides, by Tho. Hobbes". Calf; signature on title of William Freke.

The present work is the first complete edition of Diodorus Siculus’s Bibliotheca historica in English, including excerpts out of book 6, 21-26, 34 and 37 from a translation by Henri de Valois published in 1634, and fragments concerning embassies. See D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), D 1512.

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